Jack Smith wanted to keep one secret about his witch hunt against Donald Trump hidden
Jack Smith is trying to achieve Democrats’ goal of putting Donald Trump on trial before the election.
He came to a fork in the road.
And Jack Smith wanted to keep one secret about his witch hunt against Donald Trump hidden.
Jack Smith’s final attempt at election interference
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump over January 6 is his last shot.
District Court Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed his classified documents against Trump.
It’s January 6 or bust for Smith.
The Supreme Court’s ruling on Presidential immunity in favor of Trump meant that Smith had to go back to the drawing board.
The ruling determined that Presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts while in office.
It was left up to lower courts to determine what is considered an official act by a President.
Smith filed a superseding indictment in his January 6 case that kept the same four charges against Trump but removed some of the evidence that is covered by Presidential immunity.
Democrats were excited because they thought that Smith would finally be able to get Trump.
Jack Smith’s latest political stunt
Legal experts scoffed at Smith’s superseding indictment as a political stunt.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Cherkasky told the Daily Caller that there’s “no legitimate legal requirement” for an indictment this close to Election Day.
“The DOJ ordinarily pauses prosecutions of political candidates 60 days ahead of the election,” Cherkasky continued. “If Trump is elected, Smith and his cases are undoubtedly thrown away and Smith is likely to head back to The Hague where he was before being appointed as a special prosecutor by [Attorney General Merrick] Garland.”
Cherkasky thought that Smith’s superseding indictment was an attempt “to interject one more round of condemnation of President Trump in order to sway public opinion.”
Article III Project President Mike Davis thought Smith’s new indictment was the rogue prosecutor’s Hail Mary before the election.
“His goal is to have an evidentiary hearing, a mini-trial, in front of D.C. Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan before the election on Presidential immunity,” Davis said on Real America’s Voice.
The mini-trial has been the dream of Democrats as a last-ditch attempt at election interference.
Smith would bring evidence in the January 6 case forward in a hearing in an attempt to deal maximum political damage to Trump right before the election with the bad headlines generated by the media about it.
The legal wrangling over what is considered an official act means that it’s unlikely that Smith will get a trial started before the election.
Former federal prosecutor Joseph Moreno told the Daily Caller that Smith’s case is still fatally flawed.
“The four charges remain, with essentially some of the underlying facts stripped out and more emphasis placed on Trump’s activities as a candidate rather than as President,” Moreno said. “This may read better, but likely suffers all the same ailments as the original, namely that not only are official acts not subject to prosecution, they are also inadmissible as evidence.”
Jack Smith is running out of time and options to derail Donald Trump’s campaign before the election.
